2007-04-03 03:34:08 · 3 answers · asked by iam working in prvt job 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
The original (which he never got yo work!) by Babbage, and Altair produced the first personal (hobby) computer, 1974.
Eniac, the first electronic, digital computer was built by the USA government about 1946. Analog computers were built before that already. Osborn built the first portable computer. It was about the size and shape of a sewing machine.
2007-04-03 03:42:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Konrad Zuse
I guess you have to clearly define "computer"...
A laptop is just a smaller version of a desktop. Miniaturization of technology is inevitable.
Babbage (UK, around 1840) planned but was unable to build a non-binary, decimal, programmable machine. The binary ABC (US, 1942) of Atanasoff (of Bulgarian origin) and Eckert and Mauchly's decimal ENIAC (US, 1945/46) were special purpose calculators, in principle like those of Schickard, (1623), Pascal (1640) and Leibniz (1670), though faster (with tubes instead of gears; today we use transistors). None of these machines was freely programmable. Neither was Turing et al.'s Colossus (UK, 1943-45) used to break the Nazi code. The first programmable machine built by someone other than Zuse was Aiken's MARK I (US, 1944) which was still decimal, without separation of storage and control.
2007-04-03 10:43:46 · answer #2 · answered by zeb 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The computer was invented by a man named Babbage The PC invented by IBM.
2007-04-03 10:37:05 · answer #3 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋